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Seradata Space Conference 2023: A squeeze on launch availability has operators and insurers praying for SpaceX reliability
For Eutelsat, a leading geostationary and low Earth orbit communications satellite operator (with the acquisition of OneWeb), a lack of available launch slots over the next five years is of immediate concern, according to keynote speaker Vijay Thakur, the company’s...
Seradata Space Conference 2023: The future of space insurance and what matters: reliability, collision risk and sustainability
Speaking at the Seradata Space Conference in London on 20 June, Stéphan Rives, the global head of reinsurer SCOR, set out the current status of the space insurance market. He noted falling premiums after a profitable year – with premiums at historically low levels –...
New Frontiers: space stations, the Lunar Pathfinder and orbit refuelling
Voyager Space’s new space station will be launched as one item, Skylab-style, rather than being expensively completed in orbit as more recent space stations have been, chief revenue officer Clay Mowry told the Seradata Space Conference in London on 20 June. Mowry’s...
And another one up: SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 carrying 56 sats for Starlink Group 5-12 of Gen2 constellation
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 1535 GMT on 23 June 2023. The launch vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 5-12, a total of 56 v1.5 second generation Starlink satellites. The reusable B1069 first stage,m on its...
Seradata Space Conference 2023: underwriters, operators and brokers gather for space talks, quizzes, and goodbyes
The Seradata Space Conference remains the leading forum for space insurance underwriters and brokers to meet their clients – the satellite operators, and their related industries such as launch providers. Attendance at this year's event (the conference takes place...
Russian Cosmonauts make EVA to replace ISS hardware
At 1424 GMT on 22 June 2023, Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin opened the Poisk module hatch on the International Space Station (ISS) to begin spacewalk VKD-59. Their mission during this EVA (Extra Vehicular Activity) was to retrieve several...
Experimental satellite SHIYAN-25 launched by China
Launching at 0318 GMT on 20 June a Chinese Long March 6 (CZ-6) rocket carried Shiyan-25 into LEO. The mission took place from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, Northern China. Like many of its Shiyan-series siblings this satellite is only described as an...
ULA launches Delta IV Heavy carrying NRO L-68 mission
While offering somewhat less than the launch cadence of its SpaceX competitor, nevertheless, the Boeing/Lockeed Martin jointly owned launch provider, the United Launch Alliance (ULA) is still making some important launches. After a delay from the day before caused by...
Falcon 9 launches 47 LEO comsats as Starlink Group 5-07 from Vandenberg
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Vandenberg, California, USA at 0719 GMT on 22 June 2023. The launch vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 5-07, a total of 47 v1.5 Starlink satellites as part of the GEN 2 (Second Generation)...
Orbiter SN3 falls into irrecoverable spin forcing emergency release of client sats including Otter Pup, which ended up in a spin of its own
Launcher, the spacecraft delivery company, has reported that not all went to plan following the successful lift-off of its Orbiter SN3 delivery spacecraft on the SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter-8 mission on 12 June. Orbiter SN3 apparently successfully separated from the...
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